For the past few years this research team has been involved in a series of studies designed to examine the relationships between idiographically defined teacher stress and the following: teacher and child behaviors in the classroom, teachers' health, teacher judgments about students' social and psychological adjustment, and the likelihood of a teacher referring a child for special education services. The project has been conducted with the cooperation of the Charlottesville, Virginia and Fluvanna County, Virginia Public Schools.
The measure of teaching stress employed is the Index of Teaching Stress (Greene, R.W., Abidin, R.R., Kmetz, C., (1997). The Index of Teaching Stress: A measure of student-teacher compatibility. Journal of School Psychology, 35(3), 239-259.).
This team has for the last decade been examining the effects of a variety of early family experiences on the subsequent psychological and social functioning of parents. The team has focused on issues of parenting stress, child abuse, attachment style, the marital relationship, the parenting alliance, and children's social and psychological adjustment in relation to their parent's early parenting experiences. At the present time, the team is focused on analyzing and reporting data previously collected.
Selected recent publications produced by the team:
Abidin, R.R. & Konold, T. (1999). Parenting Alliance Measure. Psychological Assessment Resources: Odessa, FL.
Sheras, P.L., Abidin, R.R., & Konold, T. (1998). Stress Index for Parents of Adolescents. Psychological Assessment Resources: Odessa, FL.
Belt, W. & Abidin, R.R. (1996). The relation of childhood abuse and early parenting experiences to current marital quality in a non-clinical sample. Child Abuse & Neglect, 20(11), 1019-1030.
Varia, R., Abidin, R.R., & Dass, P. (1996). Perceptions of abuse: Effects on adult psychological and social adjustment. Child Abuse & Neglect, 20, 511-526.
Updated May 30, 2003